Lesson video

Hi everybody, I'm Ms. Gardner and welcome to the final lesson of our unit, "The Happy Prince" reading and narrative writing.

You have all done absolutely brilliantly this unit, and I hope you've enjoyed writing about "The Happy Princes" as much as I have.

So let's get started with our final lesson where we are gonna be publishing our narrative.

Off we go.

In today's lesson from our unit, "The Happy Prince" reading and narrative writing, we are going to be able to publish all of our hard work.

So your learning outcome is, I can publish a piece of narrative writing based on "The Happy Prince." So let's start with looking at the keywords.

We'll do my turn your turn.

Publishing, layout, paragraph, illustrations.

Let's have a look at what these mean.

Publishing a piece of writing means to produce a final best version that becomes available for others to read.

The layout of a text refers to the way the information is organised on the page.

A paragraph is a distinct section of a piece of writing indicated by a new line and an indentation.

Illustrations provide visual representations of the characters settings and events described in a text.

So there are two sections of our lesson today.

In the first we'll publishing the narrative writing, and in the second we'll be looking at illustrations.

So let's start with publishing narrative writing.

To publish a piece of writing means to produce a final best version that becomes available for others to read and to enjoy.

It is important to use neat joined handwriting when publishing so that it is visually appealing to the reader so it looks really nice on the page.

Publishing your work is also another opportunity to make any last edits and improvements to your writing.

Publishing your work doesn't mean having to replace everything you've already written and have come up with loads of new ideas.

You are going to rewrite what you've already written, the opening, the buildup, the climax, and the resolution.

But it's an opportunity to edit out any mistakes that you might have made, and write it for the final time in the best way that you can.

So let's just review the structure of the narrative writing.

We had an opening, a buildup, the climax, and the resolution.

And we can use paragraphs when we're publishing our work today to indicate the start of a new section, remembering to indent the start of a new paragraph.

So this is an example of the layout of a published piece of narrative writing.

Yours probably won't look exactly the same as this your layout, but this is just an example of what it could look like.

So at the top you'll have your title, "The Happy Prince." Then you'll write the opening paragraph and you can see that the first line starts with an indent.

Then you might have an illustration of a key moment from the opening or the buildup.

Then you'll have your buildup, then the climax, and then again you might have another illustration, drawing a key moment maybe from the climax, maybe from the resolution.

And then you'll have your resolution.

So this is how you could lay out your narrative writing when you publish it.

So checking for understanding which of the following examples shows the layout in appropriate way for the first page of your narrative, A, you have climax, then the title, then the resolution.

And B, you have the title, then the buildup, then the opening.

C, you have the title, then the opening, then an illustration, and then the buildup.

So pause the video now and have a think.

That's right.

C would be the most appropriate.

You have your title at the top of the page in the middle.

Then your opening paragraph.

Then an illustration illustrating a key moment, and then your buildup.

And then you'd have a next page, which would include your climax resolution.

Well done.

So you are going to design the layout of the narrative writing on a piece of lined paper.

You'll start with the title at the top and in the centre of the page.

And you're going to plan where you will write your four paragraphs.

You need to make sure you leave blank spaces for where you will want your illustrations to go 'cause we're going to be drawing and thinking about our illustrations in the second part of the lesson.

So you need to make sure you have left enough space on your page so that you can add in your illustrations after you've done the writing.

So this is the success criteria that you will use today.

Let's go through it so that we are really sure what we need to include in our published piece of narrative writing.

So I have designed the layout of my narrative to allow appropriate space for each paragraph and blank spaces for my illustrations.

I have used neat joined handwriting to publish my narrative.

I have checked the spelling of ambitious vocabulary.

You could check the spelling using a thesaurus or a dictionary or some of the ambitious vocabulary might be on your plan.

So you can use your plan to check.

But if there's any words that you are not sure if you've spelled correctly, make sure you are checking those before you write it on your final piece of published writing.

And finally, I have drawn at least two illustrations.

We don't need to worry about that part for success criteria just yet 'cause we'll be doing the illustrations in the second part of our lesson.

So here is an example of published narrative writing.

So can you now help me check that I have met the success criteria? I have designed the layout of my narrative to allow appropriate space for each paragraph.

So you can see I had my title at the top and in the centre.

Then I wrote my opening.

Then I left quite a big gap between my opening and my buildup to allow for space to draw a key moment from the opening.

Then I had my buildup.

That was all on the first page.

Then on the second page, I finished my buildup and I started my climax.

And then you can see at the bottom I've written the resolution and my resolution.

I only used half of the line of each line because I wanted to draw an illustration to the right of the resolution.

So I left a a big space blank for an illustration so I can give myself a tick.

Have I used neat joint handwriting to publish my narrative? I did.

I tried to make sure every word used cursive handwriting so I can give myself a tick.

Have I checked the spelling of ambitious vocabulary? There was some tricky spelling in this narrative.

So I used an online dictionary to help me check that I had spelled them correctly so I can give myself a tick.

I can't give myself a tick for the final part of my success criteria 'cause I'll be drawing the illustrations later in this lesson.

So there is a couple of things to be thinking about when you are publishing your writing.

When you are publishing your writing, you must remember to do all of these.

Indent, the start of a new paragraph.

You can see at the start of every paragraph, the first word or the first line, there is a space between the margin and the first word and that's called an indent.

And that just makes it really clear that it is the start of a new paragraph.

I also remembered at the start of a new paragraph to skip two lines, just again, just to clearly show that it is the start of a new paragraph.

Also, you need to be thinking about the speech and the direct speech that you'll be writing whenever there is a new speaker.

You'll need to start a new line.

So that again, it's really clear who is speaking and that this is new person speaking, responding to the previous line of speech.

And you'll need to remember to leave space for your illustrations.

So these are three really important points to be thinking about when you are writing your published piece of writing.

Just to remind you, you are not having to think of loads of new ideas and completely new sentences to write.

Again, you are going to use the opening and the buildup and the climax and the resolution that you've already written and just writing it down for the final time in your neatest handwriting and editing out any mistakes that you had previously made, which is totally okay If you made mistakes, we all do it.

This is what publishing is for that chance, final chance to amend any mistakes and make any final improvements.

So it's time for task A.

You need to get some lined paper.

Then you need to use the final and edited outcome of your narrative to publish your piece of writing.

Use the success criteria to help you and pause the video now and off you go publishing your narrative of the happy prints.

Okay, well done everybody.

Welcome back.

In a moment, you're going to go back and have a look at your published writing and check that you can take off everything you need to from the success criteria.

So from my example, I designed the layout of the narrative to allow for each space, for each paragraph.

And I left blanks for the illustrations so I can give myself a tick.

I used neat and joined handwriting so I can give myself a tick.

I checked the spellings of the ambitious vocabulary that was in my writing so I can give myself a tick, but I cannot give myself a tick for the final one 'cause we're going to be doing that.

Are we going to be doing the illustrations in the next section of the lesson? So pause the video now and go back through your success criteria and your published piece of writing.

Off you go.

Okay, well done everybody.

Great job.

It's now time for the second section of our lesson where we are going to be looking at illustrations.

Illustrations are often found in fictional texts, in particular children's books.

Illustrations provide visual representations of the characters, the settings, the events described in the text, in the story.

And this helps reader to better imagine and engage with the story.

Illustrations can bring the story to life and make the images more vivid in the reader's mind.

Illustrations can also convey emotions and moods of the characters.

They can capture expressions, particularly facial expressions and body language that enhance the reader's understanding of the character's feelings and emotions.

For example, in "The Happy Prince," if you drew a picture of the prince's face looking really sad, so you did a a frown on his face, the reader can see that image and understand that the character is feeling really sad.

That of course read this in the text as well, but the picture just supports and enhances this understanding.

So you wrote a version of the narrative, "The Happy Prince." Now, you'll add illustrations of the key moments to your published piece of writing.

So think back to the whole of the narrative, the whole "Happy Prince." What key moments could you include? Which illustrations of the key moments could you include? Pause video now and discuss this with your partner or just have a think off you go.

Okay, here are some possible responses.

Maybe the key moment could be the prince crying to the bird at the beginning of the story or the distressing sight of the sad seamstress.

It's a really important moment 'cause that's what makes the prince so unhappy or that moment at the end when the prince has given away all his jewels and gold leaves and this causes that important man to look at him and throw him into the furnace so quite a key moment.

There are lots of other key moments in the narrative, but these were just some possible ideas.

So let's now learn to draw an illustration that could appear in the narrative.

You can use different sources to help you draw this illustration.

You could look at pictures on the internet.

You could look at some illustrations from books, other versions of "The Happy Prince." You could look at videos 'cause there's been lots of filmed versions of "The Happy Prince." And you can also look back at the pictures from previous lessons in this unit.

You also might just want to use your imagination, but of course the internet and the books and the videos are there to help you with your drawing if you want to.

So you can choose two key moments from "The Happy Prince" that you would like to draw.

I'm going to choose the moment that the prince was crying to the bird.

You'll need these materials, paper, pencils, erasers or rubbers, and then some colouring pencils, wax crayons or colouring pencils either are great.

So let's think about now drawing this key moment.

First you need to start by sketching the outline of the statue.

A bit like this, you can see I've just drawn the outline of his body and the crown, but no facial expressions and not too much detail.

Then you need to add the outline of the bird.

So you can see here that out the bird is flying towards the prince, but I haven't drawn much detail to the bird.

Now add details to the prince's face and his body and the bird, a bit like this.

And this was where I drew the prince's facial expressions so that the reader could understand just how sad he was, even remember to try and draw the tears falling down his face.

I also added some jewels to the prince to show that's what he looked like at the beginning of the story.

Then you can draw any details that you'd like to the background.

So I've added in some houses, a tower, a church, an aspire in the background to show that the book is set in a city.

And then finally, you can colour in your illustration, which you can see here, I didn't have a gold colouring pencil, so I used a mixture of yellow and orange to help me try and get that gold colour of the prince.

I also made sure to include the red jewel on his sword because that is the jewel that they take to the red, to the sad seamstress.

So that's a really important feature of the prince.

So as I said, you might not want to draw this exact key moment.

You might choose another key moment from the narrative, but I thought this was a really important moment, especially at the beginning of the story.

So it's time for task B.

You now need to take your published narrative writing and find the blank spaces, and then you'll draw two illustrations of key moments from "The Happy Prince." As I said, you can use your imagination or if you'd like to, you can look through some books on the internet through any movies or previous lessons to help you with drawing your images.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, well done everybody.

Welcome back.

So let's go through the success criteria and I'm going to see if you'll be able to tick it off as well.

So the first thing you find the blank spaces and then you drew two illustrations of the key moments.

You can see on my version here.

I drew sad prints crying at the beginning of the story, and then I drew the broken heart at the end going into the furnace.

I coloured in my heart in grey to show that it was made of lead metal rather than a real human's heart.

So now I can go through my success criteria.

I designed the layout to allow for enough space for all the paragraphs and the illustrations.

I used neat join time writing.

I checked my spellings and now I have drawn at least two illustrations so I can give myself a tick for that.

So now pause the video and go back through your success criteria to check you've included everything you needed to.

Okay, well done everybody.

You've all worked so hard, not just today on this lesson, but across this whole unit.

So you should be really proud of what you have produced.

Here is a summary of everything we've learned today.

Neat joint handwriting is important when publishing.

A published piece of writing is the final best version.

A published piece of writing should be visually and linguistically appealing to the reader.

Illustrations provide visual representations of the characters, settings and events described in the text.

And illustrations can bring the world of the story to life and make it more vivid in the reader's mind.

Well done everybody.

Great job.